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ence ; and we may confidently believe with our greatest living 

 poet — 



That life is not as idle ore, 



But iron dug from central gloom, 



And heated hot with burning fears, 

 And dipt in baths of hissing tears, 



And batter' d with the shocks of doom 



To shape and use. 



We thus find that the Darwinian theory, even when 

 carried out to its extreme logical conclusion, not only does not 

 oppose, but lends a decided support to, a belief in the spiritual 

 nature of man. It shows us how man's body may have been 

 developed from that of a lower animal form under the law of 

 natural selection ; but it also teaches us that we possess 

 intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so 

 developed, but must have had another origin ; and for this 

 origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen 

 universe of Spirit. 



